Bryce Dessner Quotes

Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

Bryce Dessner The National

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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

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• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

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• This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

  

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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

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• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

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• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

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• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

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• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  

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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

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• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

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• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

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• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

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• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

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• I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

  

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• I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

  

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• There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

  

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• There's definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It's that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it's really what's separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.

  

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• Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

  

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• I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

  

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• When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

  

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• Me, who's educated classically, I went toward rock music 'cause it was sort of a natural evolution from where I was playing with my brother. But I was always drawn back into classical music.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Brother